A Reader in Health Policy and Management

by Mahon, Ann; Walshe, Kieran; Chambers, Naomi

• ISBN13: 9780335233670
• ISBN10: 0335233678
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

This reader reflects the dominant and enduring themes in health policy and management, for example, evidence-based health policy, public health and quality in health care. The editors have selected a range of classic, influential and challenging texts with an international audience in mind. The nature of the themes (and the contributions selected), have longer term and international perspectives and are not pre-occupied with current policy problems.

Author Biography

Ann Mahon is a Senior Fellow of the Health and Policy Management Group at the University of Manchester.
..Kieran Walshe is Professor of Health Policy and Management at Manchester Business School. He is a senior academic with nineteen years experience in health policy, health management and health services research.
..Naomi Chambers is head of Health Policy and Management at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

General introduction

Part one: The role of the State in healthcare (Editor Ann Mahon)

1 Social Insurance and Allied Services

2 The New Politics of the NHS

3 The Social Transformation of American Medicine: the rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry

4 Securing our future: taking a long-term view

Part two: The policy making process (Editor Naomi Chambers)

5 Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform

6 Designing Health Service Organisation in the UK, 1968-1998

7 Why Britain is reorganizing its health service - yet again

8 The interplay between economic and political logics

Part three: The allocation and distribution of resources (Editor Kieran Walshe)

9 Equity and equality in health and healthcare.

10 Explicit and implicit rationing: taking responsibility and avoiding blame for health care choices

11 The development of health technology assessment

12 Economics, QALYs and medical ethics: a health economist’s perspective.

13 Resource allocation to health authorities: the quest for an equitable formula in Britain and Sweden

Part four: Markets and choice in healthcare (Editor Naomi Chambers)

14 Reflections on the management of the National Health Service: An American Looks at Incentives to Efficiency in Health Services Management in the UK

15 Patient choice and patient empowerment in northern European health systems: a conceptual framework.

16 The Right to Give in The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy

17 Links between governance, incentives and outcomes: a review of the literature NCCSDO

18 Giving Consumers of British Public Services More Choice: What can be learned from recent history?

Part five: Accountability and regulation (Editor Kieran Walshe)

19 The audit society: second thoughts.

20 Regulation of government: has it increased, is it increasing, should it be diminished?

21 External assessment of health care.

22 Social regulation of healthcare organisations in the United States: developing a framework for evaluation

23 The role of regulation in quality improvement

24 What is measured is what matters: targets and gaming in the English public healthcare system

Part six: Quality and safety (Editor Kieran Walshe)

25 The quality of care: how can it be assessed?

26 Continuous improvement as an ideal in healthcare

27 A primer on leading the improvement of systems.

28 Error in medicine

29 Evaluation of quality improvement programmes

Part seven: General management and governance (Editor Naomi Chambers)

30 Administrative Behaviour Rationality in Human Behaviour

31 The Fish Rots from the Head

32 Report of the NHS Management Enquiry

33 The Governance of Public and Non-Profit Organisations

34 Shaping Strategic Change

35 Why do we keep on meeting like this? The board as ritual in health and social care

Part eight: Evidence based policy and management

36 Effectiveness and efficiency: random reflections on health services.

37 On the need for evidence based medicine

38 Grey zones of clinical practice: some limits to evidence based medicine.

39 Evidence based management: from theory to practice in healthcare

40 Is there such a thing as evidence based management?

Part nine: The social context of health (Editor Ann Mahon)

41 Report from the Poor Law Commissioners on an inquiry into Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain

42 The Inverse Care Law

43 Declaration of Alma Ata (1978) International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma Ata, USSR, 6-12 September.

44 Report of a Research Working Group Inequalities in Health

45 A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians

46 Securing good health for the whole population.

Part ten: Cultural critiques of formalised healthcare systems (Editor Ann Mahon)

47 Hippocratic Oaths

48 Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates.

49 Limits to Medicine. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

50 The Unmasking of Medicine

51 Medicine Matters after all